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You've got a situation now where the president asks for a budget summit with congressional republicans, appoints joe biden to leave it and biden leaves for moscow. it doesn't make any sense in terms of prioritizing. bill: what about that, doug, do democrats not care, or perceive the urgency or is steven all wrong on that. >> neither side gets the urgency of the overarching problem. we could argue back and forth about whether the democrats are doing enough or not enough. the real issue is there is the absence of a plan, and the fact that the vice president is making an overseas trip at a time o...

They are nervous that he might pull a fast one and cut them out of the deal. >> bret: speaker boehner has 87 republicans who want him to hold the line on the $100 billion figure. oil's $61 billion in cuts this year they passed two weeks ago. that is going to be the real battle, isn't it? >> yeah there are interesting intraparty battles on both sides. explained what the white house and democrats are facing. it's not monolithic but that is a strong antispending bloc they have to con tepid with. what the leadership has to do is extract what they can and the white house floated a new, you know, po...

They are nervous that he might pull a fast one and cut them out of the deal. >> bret: speaker boehner has 87 republicans who want him to hold the line on the $100 billion figure. oil's $61 billion in cuts this year they passed two weeks ago. that is going to be the real battle, isn't it? >> yeah there are interesting intraparty battles on both sides. explained what the white house and democrats are facing. it's not monolithic but that is a strong antispending bloc they have to con tepid with. what the leadership has to do is extract what they can and the white house floated a new, you know, po...

Mcconnell did reach out and say if you want to work on this, you'll find a willing partner. >> you see a budget summit coming up? >> i hope not. >> this is what i think -- >> we'll have to have graphics and music and everything. >> right. >> the summit of -- the numbers summit. if i were the republicans, i would not fall for that again. >> i think you're right. let me ask you about this. the fella that currently holds your job at the white house. >> my old job. >> your old job. we haven't seen him. where has he been? >> i cut him some slack. on days that the president has a press conference, i...

Conference committee so we can do the hard work to finalize the details this year. >> neil: by when? >> our goal is by christmas. we're on that schedule. >> you have to work through the weekend, the nights. this idea of taking a recess, doing this. the public gets sick of that. so get it done. i do think time is of the essence and we have to get this done before christmas. >> neil: get her done. that's what they're trying to do. peter doocy is on how they plan to do it. he's joining us on capitol hill. hi, peter. >> hi, neil. four days before the government runs out of money and has to shut do...